# Name a movie where two actors play the same character. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860 "2005-03-16T18:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/61 "2005-03-18T03:10:13Z")
In [_Big_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/fullcredits), Josh Baskin is played by bosh Tom Hanks and David Moscow. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/62 "2005-03-18T03:35:02Z")
So is anybody familiar with the movie [Palindromes](http://imdb.com/title/tt0362004/)? The main character (Aviva- a palindrome of course) is played by a different actress in each scene. I haven’t seen it but was told of it today and thought of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/63 "2005-03-18T03:48:21Z")
**The Lion King** : Simba was voiced by Johnathan Taylor Thomas, and Matthew Broderick. Also pretty much every character that sang had a different singing voice. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/64 "2005-03-18T03:50:30Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Actually… > > Kint IS Keyser Soze. Keaton addresses him as such and the burned Hungarian names and describes Kint as Soze. I know all the flashbacks are fake, but the Soze-hunting Hungarians are real, as is the 93-million-dollar informant. The film’s opening scene, where a mysterious man pisses out a fire and then shoots Keaton, is _not_ a flashback. Ohhhh. You’re right. Nevermind. I’ll just go now. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/65 "2005-03-18T12:00:51Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > Plan 9 from Outer Space. > > Bela Lugosi died of a drug overdose during production and was replaced by a look-alike stand-in partially hiding his face behind the Dracula cape. Similarly, [The Crow](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109506/?) was completed after Brandon Lee died on set. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/66 "2005-03-18T13:02:30Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Sorry I’m too darn lazy to type them all out, but there are a dozen or more in [this link here.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104694/fullcredits) What the heck are you and **Clothahump** talking about? I looked all through those credits for _A League Of Their Own,_ and didn’t see a single double-cast character. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/67 "2005-03-18T15:27:23Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > What the heck are you and **Clothahump** talking about? I looked all through those credits for _A League Of Their Own,_ and didn’t see a single double-cast character. Except for Geena Davis and Lori Petty, the elderly versions of the characters were all played by somebody else. I’d heard that they were played by actual baseball players from the women’s league, but I wouldn’t bet the rent on it. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/68 "2005-03-18T15:30:24Z")
From that IMDB link: > [@](#): > > Lynn Cartwright … Older Dottie > Kathleen Butler … Older Kit > Eunice Anderson … Older Mae > Vera Johnson … Older Doris > Patricia Wilson … Older Marla > Mark Holton … Older Stilwell > Barbara Erwin … Older Shirley > Betty Miller … Older Betty > Eugenia McLin … Older Ellen Sue > Barbara Pilavin … Older Helen > Marvin Einhorn … Older Ira > Shirley Burkovich … Older Alice Even Kit and Dottie, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/69 "2005-03-18T15:32:11Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Except for Geena Davis and Lori Petty, the elderly versions of the characters were all played by somebody else. Except for [Geena Davis](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142187/bio) and [Lori Petty](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125002/), you say? Thanks for pointing that out. I’d missed the “older” adjective in my first pass through the credits. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/70 "2005-03-18T15:42:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So is anybody familiar with the movie [Palindromes](http://imdb.com/title/tt0362004/)? The main character (Aviva- a palindrome of course) is played by a different actress in each scene. I haven’t seen it but was told of it today and thought of this thread. Directed by Todd Solondz (_Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness_), I don’t think it’s been released yet (but it will be shortly, presumably on the arthouse circuit, mostly). ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/71 "2005-03-18T16:13:03Z")
Spock was portrayed by six actors in \*\*_Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:_ \*\* Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly (who carried Spock’s _katra)_ and the four young actors who portrayed Spock as he grew from childhood to young adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/72 "2005-03-18T16:18:14Z")
Buffy Summers was portrayed by both Sarah Michelle Gellar and Eliza Dushku in two episodes of _Buffy the Vampire Slayer._ Similarly, Faith (no last name) was portrayed by both Eliza Dushku and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the same two episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/73 "2005-03-18T17:24:50Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > Bela Lugosi died of a drug overdose . . . Lugosi died of a heart attack, at the age of 73. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/74 "2005-03-18T17:37:44Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Spock was portrayed by six actors in \*\*_Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:_ \*\* Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly (who carried Spock’s _katra)_ and the four young actors who portrayed Spock as he grew from childhood to young adulthood. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the nun at the aquarium is played by 2 different actresses. Note how she goes from young, tall, and skinny to old, short, and plump and then back again in one scene. In Dodgeball Patches O’Houlihan is played by Rip Torn and Hank Azaria. In Body Double Melanie Griffith plays a porn star who plays the neighbor who is played by Deborah Shelton. And in Shallow Hal, There is indeed a body double for Gwyneth Paltrow – she’s in the fat scenes where you see her skin but not her face. Can’t pull that off with a body suit. There are a number of other double castings in that movie as well, with all the pretty/ugly people. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860/75 "2005-03-18T17:55:24Z")
Thought of another one: In _ **Fallen** _, serial killer Edgar Reese comes back to life as a body-possessed spirit who goes on to inhabit the bodies of over a dozen different actors throughout the movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-where-two-actors-play-the-same-character/294860.md?page=3)